This beautiful and important encyclopedic compilation of civil mental health laws across Canada is finally out in 2023. It is only updated and reissued every four years. An important resource for those working in this area of law, you can find it in every law library.
Always fun to be bound together with Mines and Minerals, if marginally less so with “Military” – but still cool in its own way.
The wonderful Halsbury’s joins my regular roster of LexisNexis textbooks, with which many of you are already familiar pictured here:
And of course the most recent new release from 2023, the student case book Law and Mental Health in Canada: Cases and Materials
In less than a year, by end of summer 2024, you can look forward to the next chapter as it were, an entirely new collection of astounding mental health / mental disorder law content in a stunning new volume that is the largest scale undertaking yet of my publishing career. More exciting news on that soon!
Thanks for caring about mental health justice dear reader!
• Called to the Bar (1992)
• U of T Law grad (1990)
• Sole practitioner (33 years)
• Partner in small law firm (Hiltz Szigeti) 2002 - 2013
• Mom to two astonishing kids, Scarlett (20+) and Sebastian (20-)
• (Founding) Chair of Mental Health Legal Committee for ten years (1997 to 2007)
* Founding President of Law and Mental Disorder Association - LAMDA since 2017
* Founder and Secretary to Women in Canadian Criminal Defence - WiCCD - since 2022
• Counsel to clients with serious mental health issues before administrative tribunals and on appeals
• Former Chair, current member of LAO’s mental health law advisory committee
• Educator, lecturer, widely published author (including 5 text books on consent and capacity law, Canadian civil mental health law, the criminal law of mental disorder, a law school casebook and a massive Anthology on all things mental health and the law)
• Thirty+ years’ experience as counsel to almost exclusively legally aided clients
• Frequently appointed amicus curiae
• Fearless advocate
• Not entirely humourless
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